The Running Mate

Klein, Joe

ISBN 10: 0553527495 ISBN 13: 9780553527490

Publisher: Bantam Audio, 2000

Synopsis

Charlie Martin, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and senator, makes a run for the presidency and after being defeated in the Democratic primaries, he attempts to get on with an increasingly complicated life.

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About the Author

Joe Klein, a journalist for nearly three decades, is currently Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. In addition to Primary Colors, his previous books include Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam and Woody Guthrie: A Life.


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From the Inside Flap

uot;astonishingly powerful" by The New York Times, and "written perfectly" by The Washington Post, Joe Klein's #1 bestseller, Primary Colors, was the most-talked-about political novel of the past century. Now acclaimed journalist and author Joe Klein returns with another brilliant and slyly subversive novel set in the gladiatorial arena he knows so well: politics in modern-day America.

U.S. senator Charlie Martin is a hot political property, dashing, honorable, irreverent -- and a decorated Vietnam veteran. The Running Mate follows this brash hero on a wild, exhilarating ride through the minefields of politics as usual.

But as Charlie quickly learns, combat is a cakewalk compared with the battles waged by free men in pursuit of glory and power. For Charlie's political star is beginning to wane ... a bid for the presidency ends in failure ... a young campaign volunteer's father decks him -- in front of the ca

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Audio
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0553527495
• ISBN 13: 9780553527490
• Binding: Audio Cassette
• Language: English